Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Examples of material included: women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Jones, Helen, ed.
Duty and Citizenship: the Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953
(The Historians' Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C3649
Keywords: 9781872273037, Violet Markham, women, work, duty, citizenship, suffrage, anti-suffrage, Votes for Women, anti-suffragism, suffragettes, Edwardian, war, World War I, Great War, First World War, Home Front, citizens, Liberals, local politics, Liberal politics, twentieth century, letters, Helen Jones
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Miller, Miranda.
Bed and Breakfast: Women and Homelessness Today
(The Women's Press, 1990).
Paperback. Good. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C9725
Keywords: 0704342049, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, homes, houses, homeless, homelessness, family, families, violence, domestic violence, children, bed and breakfasts, hotels, hostels, landlords, tenants, residences, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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McCrindle, Jean & Rowbotham, Sheila, Eds..
Dutiful Daughters: Women Talk About Their Lives
(Penguin, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Pages browned, front cover clipped at top corner, a good working copy. 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C6499
Keywords: 9780140219456, women, women's lives, biography, domestic, sexual, women and work, female, experience, Janet Daly, Annie Williams, Annie Davison, Catherina Barnes, Maggie Fuller, Jean Mormont, Peggy Wood, Norah Kirk, Fiona McFarlane, Barbara Marsh, Pat Garland, Christine Buchan, Irene McIntosh, Linda Peffer, domestic, family, oral history, interviews, oral history interviews
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Rothman, Sheila M.
Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present
(Basic Books Inc).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiv + 322pp. Order No. NSBK-C12563
Keywords: 0465092039, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, domestic, domesticity, homes, housewife, housewifery, houses, roles
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Hendon, Zoe.
Wallpaper:
(Shire Books, 2018).
Paperback. Very good. 62pp. Order No. NSBK-A15966
Keywords: 9781784423131, wallpaper, wallpapers, interior design, walls, history, decor, decoration, domestic, homes
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Black, Jeremy.
The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731:
(Alan Sutton, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned, slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A5336
Keywords: 0862993008, Anglo-French, Anglo-French diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, Europe, European, balance of power, France, Britain, British, French, history, domestic politics, Crown, monarchy, monarchies, Seville Alliance, eighteenth century
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